i am sorry that i threw a stick at nathan

At some point in time, my dad began punishing us by forcing my brother and me to write essays about what we had done and why it was wrong. As I was sorting through some stuff in my storage room today, I came across one of these essays. I have no idea how old my brother and I were when we wrote these . . . maybe 12 and 9? They are hilarious!

Here they are, exactly as they were written:

Nathan's:

For starters, boys are not supposed to hit girls. Next, I should not hit her because it could her, plus you told me not to, and I was disobeying my mom and dad. And it is one of the ten commandments too. If it hit her hard, it could break one of her bones. If I ever want her to do anything nice for me, I have to be nice to her. I have to learn not to hit her or she will hit me back. If she hits me and I hit her back, I am disobeying the Bible. One of the reasons I hit her is because of my temper and that will get me hurt or maybe even killed someday. And I have to learn to be nice to her because I might need somebody to get help from. Someday we will probably move out and probably miss each other. If I keep on hitting her, she will probably not talk to me. It is a sin to hit her and God is not pleased when I do hit her. Sometimes I may think it only huts her, but it hurts God too, and I do not want to hurt God. 

Mine:

Anger can lead to revenge, as it is written in 1 Kings 21:4-10. It talks about Ahab. Ahab wanted a man named Naboth to see him his vineyard. Naboth would not sell it to him so Ahab went home and did not eat or drink. Ahab's wife, Jezebel, called a meeting of prayer and fasting. She wanted two scoundrels to go and find Naboth and accuse them of cursing the king (Ahab), then take them out and execute them.

Even Jesus got angry, as it says in Mark 3:5. But my mistake was not being angry. It was what I did with my anger that was a mistake. Also, God got angry at Paul.

In Proverbs 29, it says that a fool who provokes his family to anger and resentment will finally have nothing worthwhile left. He shall be the servant of a wiser man.

The answer to Nathan and I fighting is not to ignore each other, as it is written in 1 Timothy 5:3-5. We should take care of our family as Jesus wanted to in John 19. He instructed John to take care of his mother.

I should have also forgiven Nathan. In Matthew, Jesus said that we should forgive as we are forgiven. 

I am sorry that I threw a stick at Nathan, even though I did not hit him with it. I should have let God fight my battles for me like it says in Psalm 35: 1-10.

In Romans 8:28, it says that God can bring good from any problem. In this I learned what God says about revenge.